This package was debianized by CJ van den Berg on
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:59:43 +0200.
It was downloaded from .
Upstream Authors
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Lennart Poettering
Pierre Ossman ,
through his employer Cendio
Licensing
=========
The upstream license clarifies pretty well that the sources of pulseaudio are
LGPL (please see LGPL license grant below), but that some parts will be
effectively GPL since they rely on GPL libraries, quoting the upstream
LICENSE:
"""All PulseAudio source files are licensed under the GNU Lesser General
Public License. (see file LGPL for details)
However, the server side links to the GPL-only library 'libsamplerate'
which practically downgrades the license of the server part to GPL (see
file GPL for details), exercising section 3 of the LGPL.
Hence you should treat the client library ('libpulse') of PulseAudio as
being LGPL licensed and the server part ('libpulsecore') as being GPL
licensed. Since the PulseAudio daemon and the modules link to
'libpulsecore' they are of course also GPL licensed.
-- Lennart Poettering, April 20th, 2006."""
However, it should be noted that the file src/pulsecore/g711.c is public
domain with the following disclaimer:
"""
* This source code is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is provided
* for unrestricted use. Users may copy or modify this source code without
* charge.
*
* SUN SOURCE CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING
* THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE, OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE.
*
* Sun source code is provided with no support and without any obligation on
* the part of Sun Microsystems, Inc. to assist in its use, correction,
* modification or enhancement.
*
* SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE
* INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHTS, TRADE SECRETS OR ANY PATENTS BY THIS SOFTWARE
* OR ANY PART THEREOF.
*
* In no event will Sun Microsystems, Inc. be liable for any lost revenue
* or profits or other special, indirect and consequential damages, even if
* Sun has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
"""
and src/pulsecore/g711.h is Copyright (C) 2001 Chris Bagwell and comes with
the following license:
"""
** Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
** documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
** that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
** copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
** documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or
** implied warranty.
"""
g711.c and g711.h were copied from sox.
Finally, pulseaudio embeds a copy of GNU libltdl, a system independent dlopen
wrapper for GNU libtool, but this isn't used in Debian.
LGPL License grant
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This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.
Other copyrights
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src/pulsecore/poll.c and poll.h are:
Copyright (C)1994,96,97,98,99,2000,2001,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2005, Cendio AB.
src/pulse/utf8.c is:
Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Tromey
Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.